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   by hughw 6y ago

   It seems like a good strategy for NVIDIA to prevent losing market share among gamers. They could maximize profits near term by seling cards at whatever the market will bear. But they'd yield their gamer share to AMD, and that would ha
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   by hughw 6y ago

   We don't use Gitlab CI, but only their hosted git. Just thought I'd throw in our sterling experience over the past three years. We've really not noticed whatever downtime they've had.
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   by hughw 6y ago

   “Keeping the internet open and accessible for everyone requires all of us to do more to protect privacy — and that means an end to not only third-party cookies, but also any technology used for tracking individual people as they browse the
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   Google Ads: Charting a course towards a more privacy-first web(blog.google)

   78 points by hughw 6y ago|6 comments
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   by hughw 6y ago

   A can affirm the first sentence is true. (I don't dispute the second).
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   by hughw 6y ago

   Wait is Emacs lying about its age again?
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   by hughw 6y ago

   Are we commenters on HN only 1%?
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   by hughw 6y ago

   Sloan-Kettering publishes a set of online predictive tools [1] patients can use to make statistical estimates of the outcomes of surgery and other treatments. They're based on data from thousands of patients. [1] https://www
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   by hughw 6y ago

   Arecibo was an inside job.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    But the 1050 is a specialized GPU vs the general-purpose M1, and besides, the 1050 is from only three years ago. So what do you think the relationship between XTX6080 and and M4 will look like three years in the future?
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Does M1 perform these graphics calculations on the general purpose CPU, or is there a specialized graphics subsystem that does e.g. SIMT?
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    by hughw 6y ago

    I'm not so sure the fellow does understand that difference. Their take reminds me of the Far Side cartoon, where the dog is mowing the lawn, a little irregularly, and a guy is yelling at him, "You call that mowing the lawn?"[
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Apple should print it all up on newsprint and fold it into paper covers, sort of like an old-fashioned phone book.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    The Zimmerman telegram was from WWI and was intercepted by the British, not the Americans.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Now if they would please do the touch bar.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    10 secs but yeah
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    by hughw 6y ago

    They don't identify you. They read your future.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    That seems disengenuous? You can't determine a person's identity by looking at a fingerprint either. You have to match it against a database of them.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    I just never thought email needed fixing, and I suspected "worse is better" [1] would apply to Wave adoption. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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    by hughw 6y ago

    CO2 emitting but it's point source so straightforward capture and sequestration.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    I well understand that. My question is whether modern day residents of, or emigrants from, Samaria feel comfortable with the Bad Samaritan characterization. If it were a large demographic in the U.S., there might be a reaction. Then the que
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Any actual Samaritans out there? How do you feel about that language?
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Would enough users pay for an open source privacy browser? (I donate a little each month -- are there enough others?) How many employees would it really take just to evolve Firefox and MDN? The executive compensation seems really out of lin
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    by hughw 6y ago

    A prospective employer could buy the information about your alcohol use and decide not to hire you. An opponent in a lawsuit could use it to show you have a pattern of heavy alcohol use that caused you to be negligent. When you run for offi
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    by hughw 6y ago

    HN is full of people invested in the surveillance economy. Do not question it here.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Do you really want them to be able sell information about you like "Heavy home alcohol purchaser" to whoever pays them?
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    by hughw 6y ago

    In spite of its title, the article gives us no clue how the investigators used the supercomputer.
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    by hughw 6y ago

    Wiping and restoring is underrated. I feel pretty safe about my Apple encrypted cloud backups. It's a minor inconvenience to wipe the phone before crossing the border, and restore on the other side. Now - if they can make you restore i
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    by hughw 6y ago

    This paper demonstrates the principle. You start with the easier cases, then introduce the complexities. You don't have to wait until you've licked every problem to publish. And when you eventually do solve the problem in the pres
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    by hughw 6y ago

    I feel sure this technology will have a real world impact. Maybe not on your front door, but many valuable secrets and resources lie behind physical locks. As with 0-days, the owners of the technology (say a three-letter agency) may not wan